Yeah, the under Yeah, go ahead. You can answer, Jen. Yeah. So, maintenance CPC won't cover maintenance. Um, we have a maintenance agreement and the dog park committee has agreed to to do fundraising for um, you know, the the waste bags and other things that may come up. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Yep. Um, article 10 is accepting a uh, Mass General law that will allow our assessor to capture new growth um, through June 30th. Um, it's an act of 1989. This was sort of recommended from our new assessor. How how is this different from how we do it now? Jen Michael, can you take that one? I I I think it allows us to extend the time period in which we are able to capture new growth throughout the year. Okay. Okay. You can go ahead. Sorry. Article 11. Um, so last uh last meeting it was it was actually Let me just So actually last annual town meeting we appropriated or authorized uh $4 million for the ozone project.
And it is the law to make sure it is in school. So we don't want to be getting held accountable. Absolutely not. Absolutely. But I can say these guys are working with us. Well, I just think it's important for the public to know how how much we do to make sure that that happens. back one. Um, okay. So, Heather Swanches mentioned the um solutions that may involve community and school resources. Okay. And she mentioned some some agencies um that are available to help. Um, SAR pairings may result um in a referral to attendance court. Um, and that really hasn't always been the case, but we're told that that's um on the table now. Um, and then just for some uh, you know, perspective on on on this process, last year we had 108 star pairings and we're about on the same pace this year. So, we expect, you know, a little over 100 stars, which is less than 1% of our Yeah, we have our population is 12,300 kids and this is 100 a little over 100.
Yes. But in this tiny little cute dog girl is actually is actually more dangerous in this game. And it doesn't make it any better that Kazu is an actual devil. Like he grows wings every time he does a laser. Yeah. And like his upbe and stuff like he's a devil. Why is that a disadvantage? It just makes it like like she's cute and cuddly. He's a grown man. That's a devil, right? You want her to win because she's adorable. And and but we don't if you know the game, you don't want her to win, right? Well, unless she's your character. Uh some will argue, but like right now this is horrible. Oh, but there it is. And there it goes. He took a stock at least. Or was it two? One stock. One stock. Okay. So, we are 32. So, uh so Bluffton's ahead now.
Um this is to increase it additionally by 200 uh 2 million. So we're getting estimates now a year later that it's going to be six billion. So quick question because for sure the um the authorization says in my version 4 million here so it was previously so so to provide additional to the previous authorized. Yes. And we'll make sure um this has yet to go to bond council. So normally for anything borrowing um we send it to bond council to make sure that it meets all of the needs for the boring. So, this might be tweaked a little bit um once they look at it, but it means it'll be a total of six million. So, we already have the authorization for four million and we're asking for an additional two. No, that's not how it is in the version that we have. It says 4 million in the paper version that Diane handed us.
I'm going to jump in with a followup to what you just said and remind all of us that even at that rate, one absence is still one absence. And if you think about everything that goes on in the classroom in a unit or a class in a in a setting, that's a lot of information to be missed. It makes a lot of extra work for teachers to make sure that they're getting makeup work to those students. I I just an absence not just an absence. An absence is a heck of a big problem. But I'd say at the elementary school level, too. I mean, when you're thinking about trying to teach kids to read, um, it's it's tremendously important to not be missing direct instruction with something that takes direct instruction. All right. So, we have um Shann Payne here from Citrus and Dave McKay here from Bidwell to tell you about um the the details on what they do at their site to address attendance.
Bluffton's ahead. One more. Okay. Um I wanted to finish my shout out to Auction It. It is a online and in-person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great charity auction. Find out more at auctionit.io. That's auctionit.io or io and again Adamswwells internet providing for us um adamswwells.com if you wanted to check them out and then the moose/theg you will just okay here coming back with the Ryu. Okay time to see how this goes cuz I don't think they've played have they? No, cuz it wasn't the Let's talk about the difference in um so this is a lot better than the Kaza Isabelle because Ryu has a lot more projectiles of his own and like so he doesn't have to be close. And the one thing that makes Kazzy good, like the things that can kill you off like one hit, those don't work very well against Isabelle.
It does say or otherwise provide an additional 2 million to the previously approved 4 million authorized in article 11 of the 2024 annual town meeting. because that's that's not in this. Sorry. I So, the link isn't updated. The folder isn't updated. No, it's not updated yet. That's why we're That's why Diane gave us the paper copy. She gave you a She gave you a paper copy as well. Okay. Sorry. Yeah, it didn't get up in the in our original documents. It wasn't there. So, Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the version control. Okay. That's that's that was going to be my question. So, thank you. Thank you for the update. The one that's in our packet that we received previously does not have these updated changes that she's taking us through. I thought Diane had she had thought she had put it in the folder. So I thought that it's in a different folder.
So, first we have um citrus. I just wanted to note that B comes before C. Not in their not in their slideshow. Good evening everybody. Thanks for having me here. I appreciate it. I love talking about our school and the things that we're doing to um address our needs. attendance um is super important at elementary as you me mentioned and we've done a lot of mind shift changing around how we um try to create community with our families and get them in and in and so much to the minute level of like we changed our tardy slips to just say we're glad you're here today um instead of tardy because it just changes the the whole dynamic from the way it's passed out to the student and the parent we greet them with we're glad you're here today regardless of the circumstances where they're at in their attendance journey.
Like they still can, it's just like a lot harder. But like like Ryu, Kaza is also um uh an input character. Like there's different inputs, but Ryu's are a lot simpler, I would say, cuz Kaza has the most moves in the game. Okay. And that's why he was a favorite of yours for so long. Yes. and um Ryu and like all the fighting game characters that come from other fighting games like Ryu's from Street Fighter, Kazu's from Tekken, Terry's from um Fatal Fury, I kind of think, but um they all every time that they touch the ground, they look at the other character like they always face them like the like Isabelle can look the other way. It doesn't change anything. They don't automatically turn around, but every time like he will just like you can just push like yeah you can push down tail a whole bunch like the fast kick one like just over and over again and if they roll behind you it'll hit them because you automatically turn around.
Okay. Okay. No worries. I want to talk. So when we did when we did that tour I'm sorry, Madam Chair, but when we did that tour um of the water treatment facility plant, I remember we discussed the $2 million. So this four million is in addition to No, no, no. So, when we did the tour a year ago, the discussion was $4 million for the ozone project. They've now gone out to bid and it's going to be a $6 million project asking for an additional $2 million in appropriation to go with that $4 million to do the project. And when you get the revised version, Joe, you'll see that. Okay. Thank you. I thought after we had had approved that that it was a faster moving. That's what I thought. I thought it was going to be done. So, it would Well, so yeah. So it was f we did um we immediately hired the engineer and the design the designer.
Um so it's an important thing for us and we've got a great team. Um we Tim started us off with our targeted case manager who is incredibly um active with attendance at our school. Um Jess Alonzo does an incredible job. Um she sends letters. She just sent me a proof letter um to go home prior to this 4day spring travel break that we have. and um so she sends out letters to remind them of how the importance of attendance but also um to remind them of important upcoming dates so that there's sometimes in elementary world confusion like a lot of people thought we had Monday off or C Chavez day we didn't so she's she's sending you know and she's communicating that a lot with our parents who struggle with attendance and um so she's fantastic she also does um a lot with our kids who are in chronic attendance um absenteeism I should and she does punch cards with them.
So it's very good. Sometimes it's not cuz it's harder to like do some certain things but Kazio uses that like hold that like characters have a forward tilt but Kaza has a back tilt. It's you hold backwards and do it. Okay. That's why he has so many moves. And he has diagonal moves, too. Oh, but there. Okay, we're one. One- one. This is the last. If Bluffton wins this, then Bluffton wins overall. But they still have to get through one more person with the one stop. It's not looking very good for them. If you can pull this off 40%, he might be able to take it. All right, we'll see what Jaden has. One shyukin, one Katsumaki. Anything will kill. One back air, one forward tilt. Oh, that that would have killed. Got the not very strong. Okay. Oh my gosh, that was very close at 70.
So okay the four million initially included uh funding that would be for engineer design. So that's happening right now. Um but as we've gone through that design process they've done updated um estimates to the project and that's where the additional two million comes in. Yeah because I I had thought that the filter itself was a million dollars. I I don't know why, but doesn't really matter. Um, but what does matter is um Hopkin gives us 25% of it. So, now will they pay 25% of the two the additional 2 million as well? That's the intent. Yes. So, we would Yeah, we'll have to update that that um that agreement, but that's the intent. And there I I believe there's already been initial discussions about that. Okay. Okay. But that that's our that's our intent. Thank you. Question. Um, before I just go on, Joe, I think you're host.
They meet with her personally. So that whole mentor idea that you were talking about a little bit earlier in this presentation is alive and well inside of our school and she does a lot of that direct connection with our social worker and our counselor. Um and really they get prizes when they get to 90%. We celebrate them. It's a you know it's a big exciting thing. They come to the office and they see me give them high five and congratulate them for um their success because we know in elementary school often times our kids are not the people responsible. getting themselves to school. Um, and so that was part of that mindship change for us. Sorry parents, I'm but you know that was part of that mind shift change for us is um when kids get to school and the first face they see is like where have you been?
This is close. What? What? It clinkedked. His up smash clanked with the Tatsumaki and made it to the end. Then he got the down tilt. Shyukin. That is insane. Barely clutching it out as the Ryu. One stock to take the final player. But the captain of Bluffton is already out. So if they can take a stock, they win. Okay. And they have to take three. But it's We don't know. We don't know. We're 3- three. It is one. And then if if the other team does do, then we have to go on to game three. Mhm. Cuz then it would be tied. So I guess we'll see. Okay. We've got the King K rule and has to take one stock. Who did we see who that was? King K rule. Who's playing that? I don't know who is it Sigma. I think they wanted you to talk.
Is it possible for you to um unmute, Michael? I'm sorry. You're you're the host, it looks like, on the And you're the only one that can unmute, I think. Can you really? Yeah. Can you host? I'm not sure, but Holy mackerel. Um, hey, sure you guys didn't do that on purpose. There you go. We can hear you now, Michael. Okay. So, article 12 is um authorized additional funding for watermine projects. So, we just did this actually in um the fall town meeting or the special town meeting. U we appropriated $1 million. We've gone out to bid. Um those came in higher than the 1 million. And then when we sort of looked at the capital plan, which I think was presented when um Dan Mau and Britney went over the rates, uh um I think that was in Decemberish maybe. And it sort of showed that every year they were planning to do a million dollars worth of work uh for water mane replacements throughout the town.
Um that's just it's not helping them. They didn't they didn't choose for the car to break down or for the bus to be late or um for their bike to have a flat tire. things that um a lot of our students at Citrus are, you know, kind of running up against her mom has overslept some. Sibling doesn't want to go to school, so there's a different kind of um communication at home trying to get everybody ready on the same page. Um so, um and then we do a lot, she just does a lot of affirming phone calls when parents and students for those parents just she tells the kids, "Won't call your mom today and tell her about how excited we are about you being at school more that you filled your punch card out." And so that reconnection with them and on the positive because we are talking those letters are they feel daunting when you you know they see them I have a lot of parent calls that come in and so giving them that that positive back when we do see the improvement is has been really great for our community and just kind of saying hey we're in this together and it's super important that you're here every day and then schoolwide um we do the Iron Man trophy um matter of fact we do an Iron Man on Friday Friday we have a schoolwide assembly every Friday morning.
Oh, I It's funny. It's It's a Shrek profile picture. Yeah, I have I have no idea who's going back and forth there. Okay, so it looks like the So, it looks like the How's this matchup? Um, very good for you cuz King Kroll is a very not good character. Very, if you know how to play, I don't think it's possible to lose. At least for me. Like, I don't think I could lose to a King Kroll. At least in bracket, I don't think I ever would. But this um well, he got the shield break. That's a free kill right there cuz that forward is very good at killing. One down till the one up to will break it. Okay, so they're still in with their one stock. King K rule lost one. So see what happens. So you're just saying overall Rayu is probably a better character.
And so rather than sort of thinking about borrowing every year, um we thought if we already needed additional funds to complete the project, let's think about getting an authorization for the entire the entire phase project and that way we don't have to continuously borrow um every year for those projects because we'll have the authorization and that's for article 12. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. No problem. I guess my only I mean I understand getting the authorization to borrow. Um and this might have to be a discussion for another time. My question would be is does it make sense to borrow at all now considering current rates or do we I mean again might not be a conversation for tonight but I understand that this article is allowing us to do the additional 3 million but the question might be does that make sense to do it all at once?
Um and during that time we celebrate our Iron Man and academic and athletic achievements and all these things but once a month we do Iron Man and they get um this month they're getting a the two winning classes are getting popcorn parties. Um so we try to give them a little something. Sometimes it's pencils, sometimes they get power paws which is our school currency. Um, and so the highest attendants, we celebrate them and they get a cool thing that says, "This class is awesome, a banner, and they hang it out in front. They're super proud." And kids come running back with the Iron Man. You know, it's it's a thing. Um, and then, um, our targeted case manager and social worker are making daily phone calls to those high-risisk that we're super concerned about. And we identify those families through our wellness team. Um, and so that wellness team meets by by monthly in order will communicate with us those families that she's most concerned about.